“GOTO Considered Harmful” published in CACM, 1968
Mail box patented, 1858
Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine de Beauharnais, 1796
Sputnik 9 (Russia) launched, 1961
Voyager 1 (US) returned evidence of volcanism on Io, 1979
Eastern Airlines filed for banktuptcy, 1989
Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister, died, 1992
John Alexander Dowie, evangelist, died, 1907
Richard C. Adams, inventor of the paint roller, died, 1988
Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer, died, 1989
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, US women’s rights leader, died, 1947
First patent for false teeth (C. Graham), 1822
General Francisco “Pancho” Villa invaded the US (17 killed), 1916
Vega 2 (USSR) made flyby of Comet Halley, 1986
Ulysses Simpson Grant appointed commander-in-chief of Union forces, 1863
Anne Burford resigned as head of the US EPA, 1983
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalin’s daughter, defected to the US, 1967
First Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line, 1964